Choice Functions and the Scopal Semantics of Indefinites

En prenant en compte le comportement exceptionnel de la portee des SN indefinis et les complications ajoutees par les effets de distributivite des indefinis pluriels, l'A. propose une revision des approches standard de la syntaxe et de la semantique des indefinis. En suivant l'article de Reinhart Quantifier scope (1997), il explique l'unique comportement de la portee des indefinis pluriels et singuliers par une semantique de la fonction du choix, et non par quelque operation de changement de portee. Mais, a la difference de Reinhart qui s'occupe aussi de la quantification standard, il considere que la quantification par les fonctions de choix est le mecanisme uniforme pour l'interpretation des indefinis. Il propose en outre une definition formelle linguistiquement adequate et exploitable dans un systeme compositionnel

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